Category: Funny

Week 22 – Mastering Emotions

In Scroll VI, we are mastering emotions. I’m having more fun with this scroll than most. “Inside me is a wheel , constantly turning from sadness to joy, from exultation to depression, from happiness to melancholy.” I immediately thought of those lights people used to put at the base of their Christmas trees. mastering emotions

Then, whenever I read this section, I laugh or smile. “Each day, when I awaken, I follow this plan of battle before I am captured by the forces of sadness, self-pity and failure –” How many of you view the day in this manner? Well, there’s a plan for that.

If I feel depressed I sing.

If I feel sad I laugh.

If I feel ill I double my labor.

If I feel fear I plunge ahead.

If I feel inferior I wear new garments.

If I feel uncertain I raise my voice.

If I feel poverty I think of wealth to come.

If I feel incompetent I remember past success.

If I feel insignificant I remember my goals.

Today I master my emotions.

The scroll goes on to talk about the forces “which approach with a smile and the hand of friendship and they can also destroy me.” Again. Never relinquish control

If I become overconfident I recall my failures.

If I overindulge I think of past hungers.

If I feel complacency I remember my competition.

If I enjoy moments of greatness I remember moments of shame.

If I feel all-powerful I try to stop the wind.

If I attain great wealth I remember one unfed mount.

If I become overly proud I remember a moment of weakness.

If I feel my skill unmatched I look at the stars.

Today I master of my emotions.

It gets better still!

“I no longer judge a man on one meeting; I no longer fail to call again tomorrow on he who meets me with hate today. This day he does not buy gold chariots for a penny, yet tomorrow he exchanges his home for a tree. My knowledge of this secret is my key to great wealth.”

This scroll, valuable as it is, has me smiling all the way through because of it’s way with words.

(Yes, the Silence has been wonderful – I’m not in complete Silence during this period, but I’ve been experimenting and learning many new things.)

Week 14- Harmony

Harmony is a blend of essential oils. I was preparing to diffuse Harmony this afternoon, so I was transferring the oil from it’s storage bottle to the bottle with a wick that goes into my USB diffuser for use on my desktop.

I spilled some into a circle about the size of a quarter onto my desk blotter. I blotted it with my hands and a tissue. I’m thankful the scent is a gentle one and not overpowering. I think I have been feeling more harmonious since the spill.

A nice essential oil blend is helpful, but there’s more to harmony that simply breathing in a complex blend of oils. In fact, Haanel’s lesson this week is particularly emphatic about this. I’m heartened and chastened as I read 14-26.

But the thought must be clear cut, steady, fixed, definite, unchangeable; you cannot take one step forward and two steps backward, neither can you spend twenty or thirty years of your life building up negative conditions as the result of negative thinking, and then expect to see them all melt away as the result of fifteen or twenty minutes of right thinking.

Drat. Would that it be true. But alas. This is so encouraging, right? I’ve had 55 years to build up negative thinking patterns. I’ve had bursts of attempts at positiveness, but I’ve had far more negative than positives in the long run. Of course it’s going to take a little time to turn this ship around.

The intro to this week reminds us that a weed remains visible even after it’s roots have been severed. So, too, are our negative tendencies. We’re going to need have a few more sessions to eradicate this garden of weeds we’ve sown during our lifetime. But I can see them fading away. I can SEE the way to make them go away.

14-30 says, “Your world without will be a reflection of your world within.” My world within is getting much better.  14-29 says, “If you wish harmonious conditions in your life, you must develop an harmonious mental attitude.”

Spilling a little Harmony goes a long way to helping that. Besides, I’m nature’s greatest miracle. How cool is that? And you are, too! Even better.

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Week 7-Day 1 of the Mental Diet

Today’s the first full day on the Mental Diet. So far, I feel as if a switch has flipped, and I’ve entertained either positive thoughts or positively worded thoughts. I’m certainly in a better place than when I first received the Mental Diet to read.

I found my compass and put it on a lanyard to wear around my neck.

I’ve fleshed out all the topics for the April A-Z Blogging Challenge. My theme for 2016 is MKMMA, so I had to come up with MKMMA topics to match each letter of the alphabet. X was the most challenging, but I’m going with Xanthin. Can anybody guess how I’m going to tie it in to MKMMA? Tell me in comments, or if you subscribe, feel free to hit reply on your email.

How is your mental diet going?

Week 1 – Funny

I’ve noticed a few things in the Week 1 reading that have either made me smile or made odd connections in my head. I thought I’d note them here.

First, in The Greatest Salesman in the World, page 53: ” An onion plant is old at nine weeks. I have lived as an onion plant. It has not pleased me.”

For some reason, that just cracks me up every time I read it. Even after nearly a week of reading it three times a day.

Then, in the Master Keys, Part 1, my brain made the following connections (not necessarily factual):

“24. All agree that there is but one Principle or Consciousness pervading the entire Universe, occupying all space, and being essentially the same in kind at every point of its presence. It is all powerful, all wisdom and always present. All thoughts and things are within Itself. It is all in all.”

My thought? “God is in me.”

“26. As there is only one Consciousness in the Universe that is able to think it necessarily follows that your consciousness is identical with the Universal Consciousness, or, in other words, all mind is one mind. There is no dodging this conclusion.”

My thought? “The Borg.”

What struck your funny bone as you were reading? Or what thoughts popped into your head that may or may not have been irreverent?